Keynote Speakers

Dr. Frank L. Harper Jr., Founder, Principal Consultant and Trainer of Intelligent Systems Services, LLC (US); Founder & Strategic C.H.A.N.G.E. Ambassador of Create a Healthy And New Growth to Excellence Initiative; Council Member to GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group) is an Associate Professor of Business Administration; Senior Academic Board Member, International Academic Operations at the Cambridge Corporate University (CCU) (Switzerland); international author and contributing writer; and startup advisor.

A global thought leader in driving transformation through people, process, data and emerging technology. This pracademic brands the new age leader a "Strategic hustler™". During a 20+ year career as an executive, PgM/PM, individual contributor, and (inno/entre)prenuer his technology savvy, leadership, teaching, mentoring, solutions-focused thinking and execution has helped operations and large scale programs/projects with combined budgets of [$4B-plus] generate combined revenues and savings of [$2B-plus] with a 96% success rate on five continents.

Dr. Harper is a leading authority on the topics CIOs Role in Business Transformation, Business Transformation Trends, Approaches, and Leadership, a Project Managers as Senior Executives. Labeled an "amazing speaker" his C.H.A.N.G.E message has been delivered to millions throughout the Asia Pacific, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and US. A reviewer of Dr Harper's epic book, A.G.I.L.E. L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P. with a G.R.I.P., coined it a "leadership bible." It holds a 5 star review on Amazon.com and Amazon.India. Dr. Harper is a continuing writer to the PM-Wire magazine published by the Project management Institute. (PMI) chapter in Karachi, Pakistan.

His motto is, “Leaders Are Born To Be Made.”

Dennis Wiggins, Managing Director:

Dennis Wiggins has over 2 decades of experience in the information technology industry and is an expert in the Project Management discipline. He demonstrated his experience leading multi-million $ programs and projects in Information Technology. In addition, he led a $250 million IT Portfolio Governance PMO for Bell South contracted through Accenture (Big 4). Leveraging his experience in multiple disciplines, he revamped the Executive IT Portfolio Reporting methodology reducing the cycle for reporting from 4 weeks to 1 week, increasing project management productivity and reducing the dollar burn rate. Also, a lead in the PMO responsible for the domestic and international integration of approximately 75 trading applications in End-to-End (E2E) testing for security transactions for the Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office onto the Barclay’s platform.

He is a recipient of the Project of the Year Award by the PMI Atlanta Chapter for leading the design and development of the PPM Executive Command Center (PPM – ECC). This Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool was presented at the Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE) Conference & Expo and was evaluated a 2.9 out 3.0 which is equivalent to a 97% (A+). He understands the “PPM Big Picture” as this tool was designed and developed using the #2 product (Balanced Scorecard) listed in the Harvard Business Review – Top 6 Products providing PMO’s with a fully integrated, dynamic and robust Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution with dashboards and analytics reporting.

He is a certified graduate of the world renowned General Electric Financial Management Program (GE FMP), Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB).

Dennis Wiggins is a graduate from the State University at Old Westbury College with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management with a concentration in Finance.

He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Executive Program Management Dashboards (aka Team Exec) providing leading edge products & training programs, and a value added re-seller providing cost effective industry solutions.